Museo Parrocchiale "Mons. Alberto Mongardi" e Museo Mascagni - Bagnara di Romagna

Established by Monsignor Alberto Mongardi, since 1965 the museum has been housed in the parish church’s parsonage. The main hall displays sacred furnishings from the parish church and other local churches. The museum has a valuable collection of liturgical vestments from the 16th to the 19th centuries, among which are two 18th century brocaded vestments, lacework, embroidered vestments, and jewels; a rare 1520 antiphonary and a 1524 gradual, both decorated with xylographs by Pierpaolo Porro; a Bible and a Concordatiae Bibliorum from the 16th century; chalices, ciboriums, monstrances, reliquaries, and chandeliers (17th to 19th centuries); majolica pottery from Florence and Imola; and a collection of over 1,000 coins and medals from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The painting gallery features a painting by Innocenzo da Imola depicting The Virgin Mary with Saints Sebastian and Rocco (1515) and fifteen 16th century tablets with the Mysteries of the Rosary; a Flemish wooden Christ (15th century) is also of note. A small archaeological collection includes bricks with handles and other fragments. MUSEO STORICO PIETRO MASCAGNI Dedicated to the Livorno-born musician Pietro Mascagni, the museum displays many of the composer’s personal belongings, numerous autographed photos, one of his pianos, his death mask, sheet music, publications, newspaper clippings, iconographic material, and autographs, along with over 4,500 letters written between 1910 and 1944, part of his intense correspondence with the Bagnara-born choir singer Anna Lolli.